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Victor Bayne, the psychic half a PsyCop team, is a gay medium who's more concerned with flying under the radar than in making waves. He hooks up with handsome Jacob Marks, a non-psychic (or "Stiff") from an adjacent precinct at his ex-partner's retirement party, and it seems like his dubious luck has taken a turn for the better. But then a serial killer surfaces who can change his appearance to match any witness' idea of the world's hottest guy.
After years of frustration as a PsyCop, Victor Bayne reports for duty at the Federal Psychic Monitoring Program. As a fledgling agent, he’s ready to smoke out a few ghosts and be home each night in time for dinner. But is he prepared to add a professional dimension to his romantic partnership with Jacob Marks? Jacob has already established his territory in the Program - he’s competent, he’s respected, and he’s pretty much fearless. The last thing Vic wants to do is screw up in front of him.
Life takes delight in stabbing Gus Scott in the back when he least expects it. After Gus spends years running from his past, present, and the dismal future every social worker predicted for him, karma delivers the one thing Gus could never - would never - turn his back on: a son from a one-night stand he'd had after a devastating breakup a few years ago. Returning to San Francisco and to 415 Ink, his family's tattoo shop, gave him the perfect shelter to battle his personal demons and get himself together...until the firefighter who'd broken him walked back into Gus's life.
It’s day one of Darren Corliss’ career as a detective, and not only has he been assigned a notoriously difficult partner, but the guy might also be a pill-popping dirty cop. Internal Affairs needs proof, and Darren gets to be their eyes and ears whether he wants to or not. Detective Andreas Ruffner doesn’t play by the rules, and he doesn’t play well with others. With bodies piling up and a list of suspects who are way above his pay grade, the last thing he needs is a wet-behind-the-ears kid for a partner.
While forgetting your problems won't solve them, it does seem like it would make life a heck of a lot easier. Daniel thought so once. Now he knows better. He and Big Dan have always been close, which makes it all the more difficult to break the daily news: the last five years were nothing like his father remembers.
Matthew Elliot is one of LA’s best detectives. He’s been labeled the golden boy of the Fab Four: a team of four detectives who’ve closed down drug-rings all over the city. He’s smart, tough and exceptionally good at his job. He’s also a closeted gay man. Enter Kira Takeo Franco, the new boxing coach at the gym. Matthew can’t deny his immediate attraction to the man his fellow cops know as Frankie. But in allowing himself to fall in love with a man known to his colleagues, Matthew risks outing them both.
Victor Bayne, the psychic half a PsyCop team, is a gay medium who's more concerned with flying under the radar than in making waves. He hooks up with handsome Jacob Marks, a non-psychic (or "Stiff") from an adjacent precinct at his ex-partner's retirement party, and it seems like his dubious luck has taken a turn for the better. But then a serial killer surfaces who can change his appearance to match any witness' idea of the world's hottest guy.
After years of frustration as a PsyCop, Victor Bayne reports for duty at the Federal Psychic Monitoring Program. As a fledgling agent, he’s ready to smoke out a few ghosts and be home each night in time for dinner. But is he prepared to add a professional dimension to his romantic partnership with Jacob Marks? Jacob has already established his territory in the Program - he’s competent, he’s respected, and he’s pretty much fearless. The last thing Vic wants to do is screw up in front of him.
Life takes delight in stabbing Gus Scott in the back when he least expects it. After Gus spends years running from his past, present, and the dismal future every social worker predicted for him, karma delivers the one thing Gus could never - would never - turn his back on: a son from a one-night stand he'd had after a devastating breakup a few years ago. Returning to San Francisco and to 415 Ink, his family's tattoo shop, gave him the perfect shelter to battle his personal demons and get himself together...until the firefighter who'd broken him walked back into Gus's life.
It’s day one of Darren Corliss’ career as a detective, and not only has he been assigned a notoriously difficult partner, but the guy might also be a pill-popping dirty cop. Internal Affairs needs proof, and Darren gets to be their eyes and ears whether he wants to or not. Detective Andreas Ruffner doesn’t play by the rules, and he doesn’t play well with others. With bodies piling up and a list of suspects who are way above his pay grade, the last thing he needs is a wet-behind-the-ears kid for a partner.
While forgetting your problems won't solve them, it does seem like it would make life a heck of a lot easier. Daniel thought so once. Now he knows better. He and Big Dan have always been close, which makes it all the more difficult to break the daily news: the last five years were nothing like his father remembers.
Matthew Elliot is one of LA’s best detectives. He’s been labeled the golden boy of the Fab Four: a team of four detectives who’ve closed down drug-rings all over the city. He’s smart, tough and exceptionally good at his job. He’s also a closeted gay man. Enter Kira Takeo Franco, the new boxing coach at the gym. Matthew can’t deny his immediate attraction to the man his fellow cops know as Frankie. But in allowing himself to fall in love with a man known to his colleagues, Matthew risks outing them both.
Exiled for 20 years, Lucien never planned to return to England. But with the mysterious deaths of his father and brother, it seems the new Lord Crane has inherited an earldom. He's also inherited his family's enemies. He needs magical assistance, fast. He doesn't expect it to turn up angry. Magician Stephen Day has good reason to hate Crane's family. Unfortunately, it's his job to deal with supernatural threats. Besides, the earl is unlike any aristocrat he's ever met, with the tattoos, the attitude...and the way Crane seems determined to get him into bed.
When homicide detective Dexter J. Daley’s testimony helps send his partner away for murder, the consequences - and the media frenzy - aren’t far behind. He soon finds himself sans boyfriend, sans friends, and, after an unpleasant encounter in a parking garage after the trial, he’s lucky he doesn’t find himself sans teeth. Dex fears he’ll get transferred from the Human Police Force’s Sixth Precinct, or worse, get dismissed.
Mark Hansen thought working as artist’s assistant would be glamorous, especially if that artist was a vampire. Black tie events, witty repartee, gracing the pages of the local style section. Didn’t happen. Not even once. Jonathan Varga is an enigma. True, he’s quiet, generous, and scrupulously polite. But he has zero social life, refuses to be interviewed or photographed, and insists he can only consume feline blood.
Terrence Moss. Conrad Harris. Gold Team Leader. Darius Hawthorne. The Vault. Juggling all these names would bother some, but for Darius, it’s business as usual. When he closes a chapter in his life, he leaves a name - and the people associated with it - behind. He’s managed to keep a few colleagues, even fewer friends, and no companionship through his 40-plus years...but that’s now changing. The newest chapter of his life brings a chance encounter with the one man Darius ever loved: Efrem Lahm.
Talon Valdez knew when he transformed into an enhanced human, his life and his dreams were finished. Reviled, mistrusted, and often locked away, the enhanced were viewed as monsters, despised by the public, and never trusted to serve in the military or any law enforcement agency. Years later he gets a chance to set up a task force of enhanced to serve in the FBI, but with one proviso: each enhanced must partner with a regular human.
Cloister Witte is a man with a dark past and a cute dog. He’s happy to talk about the dog all day, but after growing up in the shadow of a missing brother, a deadbeat dad, and a criminal stepfather, he’d rather leave the past back in Montana. These days, he’s a K-9 officer in the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department and pays a tithe to his ghosts by doing what no one was able to do for his brother - find the missing and bring them home.
Growing up the outcast in an infamous family of psychics, Nate Black never learned how to control his empath abilities. Then after five years without contact, his estranged twin turns up dead in New York City. The claim of suicide doesn't ring true, especially when a mysterious vision tells Nate it was murder. Now his long-hated gift is his only tool to investigate. Hitching from his tiny Texas town, Nate is picked up by Trent, a gorgeous engineer who thrives on sarcasm and skepticism.
If England had yearbooks, I'd probably be "Arden St. Ives: Man Least Likely to Set the World on Fire." I've no idea what I'm doing at Oxford and, until a week ago, I had no idea who Caspian Hart was. Turns out, he's brilliant, beautiful...oh yeah, and a billionaire. It's impossible not to be captivated by someone like that. But Caspian Hart makes his own rules. And he has a lot of them. About when I can be with him. What I can do with him. And when he'll be through with me. But now that Caspian's shown me glimpses of the man behind the billionaire I know it's him I want.
Special Agent Jason West is seconded from the FBI Art Crime Team to temporarily partner with disgraced and legendary "manhunter" Sam Kennedy when it appears that Kennedy's most famous case, the capture and conviction of a serial killer known as the Huntsman, may actually have been a disastrous failure. The Huntsman is still out there...and the killing has begun again.
Once upon a time, in an alleyway in the slums of the City of Lockes, a young and somewhat lonely boy named Sam Haversford turns a group of teenage douchebags into stone completely by accident. Of course, this catches the attention of a higher power, and Sam's pulled from the only world he knows to become an apprentice to the king's wizard, Morgan of Shadows.
Deputy US Marshal Miro Jones has a reputation for being calm and collected under fire. These traits serve him well with his hotshot partner, Ian Doyle, the kind of guy who can start a fight in an empty room. In the past three years of their life-and-death job, they've gone from strangers to professional coworkers to devoted teammates and best friends. Miro’s cultivated blind faith in the man who has his back… faith and something more.
Angelus Salvatore is the only necromancer in all of Boston, and his name is whispered warily by the undead and fellow sorcerers alike. He and his brother Isaac are the lone survivors of an attack by an army of the undead, in which Angel used a spell so powerful it forever marked his place in history. Now, years later, Angel struggles to balance his career as a teacher of the higher magical arts, his role as big brother, and a tenuous relationship with an Elder vampire from the local clan.
Thanksgiving can't end too soon for Victor Bayne, who's finding Jacob's family hard to swallow. Luckily, he's called back to work to track down a high-profile missing person.
Meanwhile, Jacob tries to find a home they can move into that's not infested - with either cockroaches or ghosts. As if the house-hunting isn't stressful enough, Vic's new partner Bob Zigler doesn't seem to think he can do anything right. A deceased junkie with a bone to pick leads Vic and Zig on a wild chase that ends in a basement full of horrors.
If you could sum up Body & Soul in three words, what would they be?
A NEW VICTOR?
Any additional comments?
The best Psycop so far.
I seriously love the character of Victor Bayne. He changes a lot in this book. He becomes a better cop and a better boyfriend.
Maybe it's because he isn't high the whole book? But hell...he was even hotter than his scorching boyfriend Jacob in this one. And it's mighty hard to be hotter than Jacob.
Jordan Castillo Price just gets it.
She knows how to fulfill the wants of an m/m reader who also likes the paranormal.
My Only Complaint?
'Body and Soul' just ended too soon. It's not that there was really a cliff hanger, I just wanted more. And now my only decision is whether I wait for another hot as hell Gomez narration or do I buy the digital read? Decisions.
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What did you love best about Body & Soul?
I love the PsyCop series. I particularly love Body and Soul because there is so much character development in this book - especially for Vic. Oh, and Crash makes it clear he's interested in Vic. Things really heat up in this book.
Speaking of things heating up... Jacob Marks talking dirty to Vic during sex. Just... Ungh! It's so very, very hot.
Which character – as performed by Gomez Pugh – was your favorite?
Gomez Pugh had Victor Bayne perfected from the start. This is a constant delight.
Hearing Jacob's whole family speaking was a real treat.
The best narration of any audio books I have ever listened to. Absolutely flawless.
Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
Victor Bayne's perspective often makes me laugh when I'm reading the books; but Gomez Pugh's flawless narration guarantees that I laugh loud and often. He manages to bring all of the characters to life with insightful depth and astounding accuracy.
Any additional comments?
One of the very best M/M series brought to life in the best possible way.
I can't recommend it highly enough. A must for any M/M book lover. Essential for fans of the PsyCop series.
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I love the Psy Cop series and impatiently await the release of the next one on Audible. Gomez Pugh IS Victor Bayne and Jordan was brilliant to pair them like fine wine and cheese. Oh, wait; like Body and Soul 📕📗🌈
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Where does Body & Soul rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
Hard to say, this series is better on audio than reading the book
Which character – as performed by Gomez Pugh – was your favorite?
Victor cracks me up, his attitude and self-recremenation make this book so great. I do hope he develops more confidence in himself.
If you could take any character from Body & Soul out to dinner, who would it be and why?
Jacob! He has such a heart and patience for Victor,
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Another great narration by Gomez Pugh, he brings Victor, Jacob, Crash etc to life. His voices for Victor and Jacob are perfect and he has great vocal range and depth. If you enjoyed the first 2 books in the PysCop series you will love Body and Soul. If you haven't had the pleasure of listening to the PsyCops series yet, I highly recommend this series. Anxiously waiting for Book 4 now in audio!!
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I loved Book 3! THANK YOU JORDAN CASTILLO PRICE! I'm really enjoying this series. Vic makes me laugh. However dorky this sounds, I so wish he was a real person that I could befriend. I'm always entertained with how he sees himself vs. how Jacob sees him. I love that Jacob loves him unconditionally. That scene in the hallway... it blows my mind. And I can see how loving someone so much... lets you give them the 'freedom' to do things you would never, ever agree to otherwise. Oh Jacob.
The ending of this book left me happy... that's not always the case when reading/listening to a murder mystery, but I'm in my happy place... all snuggled up. Can't wait for book 4...
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I love cop m/m romance stories with the right amount of whodunit. But throw in some paranormal and that makes it that much better, especially since it is so well done. But the cherry on the cake is the incredible narration! Mr. Pugh has such a wide range of voices, from a little girl, or a mature, southern AA woman, to the sexy drawl of one of the MC's...just perfection! Can't wait for the next book to come out on audio as long as the narrator doesn't change. *nods*
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What was one of the most memorable moments of Body & Soul?
The finding of the loft, and how it was found.
What does Gomez Pugh bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
His accents are excellent! I love his spanish accented characters!
Any additional comments?
I love this Series! I cannot wait until more are available on Audible!!
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Would you consider the audio edition of Body & Soul to be better than the print version?
Haven't read the print version, but I will tell you the audio version is absolutely amazing.
What other book might you compare Body & Soul to and why?
PsyCop 1&2, Same characters, situations and storylines.
What does Gomez Pugh bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
He breaths life into the characters, they aren't just pen on paper, they are three dimensional when he gives them a voice.
Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
Oh my goodness, the end, it made my skin crawl.
Any additional comments?
Victor and Jacob have finally said those three little words. More secure in their relationship than ever, they start looking for a home to share. You know, some place without cockroaches, train whistles and pesky spirits that are holding a grudge over a cheating spouse, even in the afterlife. And what would a week in the life of Victor Bane be if he weren't breaking in a new partner. Let's just hope this one doesn't try to kidnap him!
While Vic and Jacob are spending the holidays with Jacob's family, Vic gets a call from his captain, he's back on the job after six weeks off stemming from his previous partner kidnapping and drugging him. The missing persons list is climbing and Victor senses a common thread, he's not sure what it is yet, but he and his new partner Zigler are determined to find out. Between the case and Vic finally stepping out of his closet, it's time to see if Zig has what it takes to be the Stiff equation to a PsyCop.
One thing I am loving about this series is how the titles completely fit the stories. The term Body and Soul can be taken a couple different ways within this story. It can be the relationship between Vic and Jacob and how they have really come to love each other, body and soul. It can also be directed at the serial killer and his or her little shop of horrors in their basement. I wasn't sure in the beginning how Zigler was going to work out, especially considering his reaction when Victor told him he was gay. But by the end he'd won me over and I think he and Vic can have a great partnership. I'm looking forward to seeing how they continue to evolve in future books in the series.
Narrated by Gomez Pugh of course and I do hope he continues to carry this series. He has this perfect vocal tone for each guy, Victor and Jacob, and I really like that he's able to capture so much emotion in his voice, subtle nuances and inflections, that really capture what the character is feeling in that moment.
Definitely a must read series; but it must be read in order. And I highly recommend the audio version, it's the perfect coupling of Author and Narrator and it gives the story a little something extra to have Pugh give the characters such distinct voices.
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Any additional comments?
This is my favorite book in the series. Thrilled with how Mr. Pugh brought the book to life. Really enjoyed his ability to have distinct and authentic "voices" for all the characters. It really allows the listener to immerse themselves into the story. Absolutely love, Love, LOVE Mr. Pugh's interpretation of Vic and Jacob's voices. Can't wait for the next book Mr. Pugh narrates!
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Brilliant series !! Loving the characters particularly Vic (of course) and Jacob is no slouch either 😂really interesting storylines that never have me switching off and Gomez is a good reason for that too. Already bought number 4 no doubt I'll be starting to listen before the ink is dry on this review!!
I really enjoy the Psycop series... Jordan Castillo Price just keeps on giving!
This was a story of two halves. Victor and Jacobs HOT HOT HOT relationship, interspersed with an investigation into three missing people who may or may not be dead.
The investigative side of the story was engaging, but didn't necessarily thrill me as much as the secondary stories in the other books. But the development of the relationship between Vic and Jacob and the sizzling, well written sex scenes MORE than made up for it.
I must always give a shout out to Gomez Pugh for his fantastic narration.
I will rush straight on to the next book ...
I hadn't read any of the PsyCop books before I listened to the series on Audible. I throughly enjoyed each story and Jordan's distinctive storytelling. I loved the premise of the series and thought the chemistry between Vic and Jacob was sizzling throughout. Gomez Pugh's performance was fabulous. His narration was spot on for each character. He differentiated each person clearly and made them come alive for me. I pictured everything going on in the scenes and recognized each character when they spoke. Jacob's voice was husky and so sexy. UNF! The production quality was excellent. I will definitely listen to all five superb stories again.
Vic and Jacob are house hunting - which for Vic means ghost hunting, hoping not to find any. Meanwhile at work he's trying to find the ghosts of several missing people, and isn't finiding them.
Another excellent performance from Gomez Pugh and of course an excellent story I already love. Pugh is great with all the minor characters as well as the leads. and continues to be perfect as the voice of Vic.